At the Blog
On Monday, Evan Behrle examined one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers are entitled to the fruits of their labor and should be paid the value of their productive contribution. What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution is largely determined by what other workers do.
On Tuesday, Frank Pasquale contrasted Magnifica Humanitas, a vision of AI in service of peace and human flourishing, with an American administration governing AI by memes, chaos, and willful self-destruction.
And on Wednesday, Wanshu Cong concluded our series on international law under the second Trump Administration, by explaining how significant parts of the global economy have long been governed through informal, political arrangements. (Don’t miss earlier posts by Ntina Tzouvala & Zohra Ahmed, Dylan Saba, Ben Heath, Sarah Sherman-Stokes, and Richard Joyce).
In LPE Land
At the Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School, Sanjay Jolly released on a new report, An Anti-Oligarchy Framework for Constitutional Labor Advocacy.
In New Political Economy, Melinda Cooper offers a historical typology of factions of asset-based capitalism.
In Jacobin, Elliot Lewis and Zach Lewis explain how to democratize the United States.
In Balls and Strikes, Madiba K. Dennie explains how people in immigration detention haven’t been convicted of any crime, yet are still being forced to work for nothing.
In Phenomenal World, Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos examine the core features and fault lines of Trumpian state capitalism, as manifest in the United States’ quest to secure critical minerals.
At the Roosevelt Institute, Elizabeth Wilkins, Suzanne Kahn, Matt Hughes, Rey Fuentes, Noa Rosinplotz released The Good Life Agenda, a vision of what our society could look like if all of us had access to the building blocks of economic security and prosperity.
